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World History – Ancient and Medieval Eras

• With this database users can explore important events and historical themes in every corner of the globe, including Asia, Africa, and the Americas, from Ancient origins to the year 1500.
• Offering overviews of time periods enabling researchers to better understand the context surrounding historical artifacts.
• Special current event features reveal connections between the present and the past.

World History – The Modern Era

• Explores the cultures, events, personalities, inventions, movements and religious developments that occurred around the globe and throughout history, form the 1500’s to present day.
• over 5,000 primary sources – documents, photographs, speeches, video’s, and more.
• over 80 topical explorations such as “The Spread of Protestantism”, “Napoleons Empire”, “The Unification of Italy”, and “The Iron Curtain”.

World Geography

• Examines cultural, physical and spatial information organized by country and topic.
• Includes a collection of over 30,000 primary and secondary sources relating to World Geography.
• Provides quick data analysis of over 200 countries. Includes country profiles and overviews including history, important statistics about population, climate, economics, and culture; biographies; a listing of influential organizations; primary source documents; maps, flags and photos.